Tag: #butterfly

• Tanka Tuesday: Fly like a butterfly

  

  This week’s #TankaTuesday prompt from Wordcraft poetry is to write an ekphrastic poem based on the below image provided by Reena. Here’s my tanka, which is a Japanese form of poetry with a syllable count of 5/7/5/7/7. My wings opened wideOver the divided earth,the fish in the sea,the flowers and the green leavesI fly in faith,…

  Smitha V

  August 23, 2022

  Poetry

  #butterfly, #courage, #ekhphrasticprompt, #faith, #inspiration, #photoprompt, #poetrychallenge, #tanka, #TankaTuesday

• NaPoWriMo Day 16: Heavenly grace

  

  This is my second take on the NaPoWriMo prompt (to write a curtal sonnet) for today. I used the rhyme scheme ABCABC DBDCC. After writing NaPoWriMo Day 16- Save the sunflowers on the current situation in Ukraine, I needed to write something lighter. How delicate must be the hand that created those dainty things?Fluttering eyelids in…

  Smitha V

  April 16, 2022

  Poetry

  #butterfly, #day16, #GloPoWriMo2022, #God, #gratitude, #lovefornature, #NaPoWriMo2022, #nature, #sonnet

• A butterfly’s kiss

  

  A butterfly flitted by my face today Black or perhaps it was blue Speckled – white circles on its wings I moved away Unsure of what flew So close to me, it had made me blink How long had I waited for it- to feel like a flower hallowed by a butterfly’s kiss Disheartened was…

  Smitha V

  December 5, 2020

  Experiences, Poetry

  #blogaday, #butterfly, #healing, #inspiration, #life, #lovenature, #nature, #natureheals, #poem

• Three Butterflies

  Wrote the below poem for the prompt “Butterflies” With heavy heart and tired feet I lower myself on the garden’s wooden seat Skies gray, vacant eyes and throbbing head Cluttered mind, filled with dread   A squirrel scurries, I gaze ahead; silent, in its direction Pondering wistfully, adrift; a delightful distraction Ethereal creatures before me…

  Smitha V

  January 17, 2019

  Poetry

  #ageing, #butterfly, #inspiration, #life, #magic, #motivation, #nature, #natureateacher, #natureheals, #naturelover, #people, #truth, Poetry